Railscasts
Three times a week you will be treated to a new Railscasts episode featuring tips and tricks with Ruby on Rails, the popular web development framework. These screencasts are short and focus on one technique so you can quickly move on to applying it to your own project. The topics are geared toward the intermediate Rails developer, but beginners and experts will get something out of it as well.
Episode 223: Charts
over 1 year ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
There are a number of libraries to help create graphs. Here I show how to integrate Highcharts into a Rails app....
Episode 222: Rack in Rails 3
over 1 year ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
The router in Rails 3 is fully compatible with Rack. Learn how to embed Sinatra into an app, handle redirects, and improve on Rails Metal....
Episode 221: Subdomains in Rails 3
over 1 year ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
It is now possible to add subdomains to Rails 3 without the use of additional plugins. Learn how in this episode....
Episode 220: PDFKit
over 1 year ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Generating PDFs in plain Ruby can be a lot of work. Instead, consider generating PDFs from HTML using PDFKit....
Episode 219: Active Model
over 1 year ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
In Rails 3 the non-database functionality of Active Record is extracted out into Active Model. This allows you to cleanly add validations and other features...
Episode 218: Making Generators in Rails 3
over 1 year ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Generators in Rails 3 have been rewritten to use Thor which means the code used to create a generator is quite different. Here you will learn the new way...
Episode 217: Multistep Forms
over 1 year ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
See how to create a multistep (wizard) form from scratch in this episode....
Episode 216: Generators in Rails 3
over 1 year ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Generators in Rails 3 have been completely rewritten to be more modular. This allows you to customize any generator to fit your specific preferences....
Episode 215: Advanced Queries in Rails 3
over 1 year ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Learn some advanced techniques regarding named scopes and get an introduction to Arel in this episode....
Episode 214: A/B Testing with A/Bingo
over 1 year ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
A/B Testing (or Split Testing) is a way to experiment with variations in an application to see the most effective option....
